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Then one hundred and fifty years later this jest of Dean Swift's came true, for two moons were really discovered revolving round Mars, and one of them does actually take less time to complete its orbit than the planet does to rotate namely, a little more than seven hours! So the absurdity in 'Gulliver's Travels' was a kind of prophecy!
Swift is there, with his terrific Drapier's Letters, anonymous, aimed at the uneducated, with cold fury bludgeoning a government into obedience; with his Gulliver's Travels, so transparent upon the surface that a child reads the book with delight and remains happily ignorant that it is a satire upon humanity.
The little gloomy cabin was going hither and thither in a style which reminded him of the tossings of Gulliver's cage after it had been dropped into the sea by the Brobdingnag eagle. The steward was seizing up mutinous trunks and chairs to the table legs with rope-yarns. The lamp was swinging and the captain's compass see-sawing like monkeys who had gone crazy in bedlams of tree-tops.
Do I think that the particular form of lying often seen in newspapers, under the title, "From our Foreign Correspondent," does any harm? Why, no, I don't know that it does. I suppose it doesn't really deceive people any more than the "Arabian Nights" or "Gulliver's Travels" do.
Thereupon Monsieur Taxile Delord adopted the method of Gulliver's tailor, who measured for clothes according to the rules of arithmetic: he demonstrated that his piece was played three times from beginning to end, that, as the manager was his particular friend, and as the Odeon was always empty, he might have had it played thirty times, and therefore that we were all bound to be grateful to him for his moderation.
"Oh yes! men, horses, and mules; but they are regular Lilliputians." "You are quite right," said Sumichrast; "how do we know that Dr. Swift did not first form his idea of 'Gulliver's Travels' from looking at the world from the top of a high mountain?" After a time, I was obliged to take the young observer away from this point for contemplation to proceed on our journey.
The bugle sounded again, and the chairman of the Avenue stunt stood up. "Our stunt tonight," she announced, "tells a hitherto unpublished one of Gulliver's Travels, namely, his voyage to the Land of the Keewaydins." The Alley sat up with one convulsive jerk. "Gulliver's Travels!" That sounded nearly like their own idea.
The Lilliputians away out in "Gulliver's Travels," or something like that?
For example, I read all Fielding's works, Don Quixote, Gil Bias, and any part of Swift that I liked Gulliver's Travels, and the Tale of the Tub, being both much to my taste. It may be, perhaps, as well to mention, that the first verses which I wrote were a task imposed by my master; the subject, The Summer Vacation; and of my own accord I added others upon Return to School.
But a fiery horse one day, pawing with his hoof, wore a hole in the handkerchief, and came down heavily on its side, and after this Gulliver could no longer trust the strength of his stage. By this time Gulliver's clothes were almost in rags. The three hundred tailors had not yet been able to finish his new suit, and he had no hat at all, for that had been lost as he came ashore from the wreck.
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